Engels to Sorge 3. VI. 1885... Concerning subsidies to steamship companies (following the fall of the exclusive law); "the split will, in all probability, occur and will be only beneficial. A petty-bourgeois socialist faction is inevitable in such a country as Germany, where the philistinism 'has existed from time immemorial' to an even greater degree than in historical law"...

7. XII. 1889: ..."The most abominable thing here" (in England) - "the bourgeois 'respectability' that has become flesh and blood for the workers... even Tom Mann, whom I consider the best of all, gladly speaks of how he will breakfast tomorrow with the Lord Mayor. When you compare this with the French, you see what a revolution means"

* See V. I. Lenin. Works, 4th ed., vol. 23, p. 101. Ed.

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itself is this colossal moving mass"... * (336).

4. III. 1891... here, supposedly, the defeat of the dock and gas workers and their trade-union, their "new trade-union was blown up, and the old conservative trade-unions, rich" (Engels's italics) "and precisely because of that cowardly, remain alone on the field of battle" (359).

14. IX. 1891. The Newcastle congress of trade-unions is also a victory (as is the international congress)... "The old" (Engels's italics) "trade-unions, with the textile workers at their head, and the entire reactionary party among the workers exerted all their efforts to overturn the decision on the eight-hour working day from 1890. They failed... and the bourgeois newspapers acknowledge the defeat of the bourgeois workers' party" (Engels's italics) "completely with horror, wailing and gnashing of teeth" ** (368).

24. X. 1891... concerning the possible war... we Germans must (perhaps) "replay 1793"... it would be a disaster if war came and it "prematurely brought us to power, one must be prepared for this contingency" (371)...

Idem, 376: in such a war "we shall have to play all or nothing" (376).

..."the masses (in Germany) are excellent and mostly better than their leaders"... (399) (7. X. 1893).

2. XII. 1893... Difficulties in the development of the workers' movement in America: 1) the system of "party management" (2 parties; loss of votes for a third); 2) immigration divides the workers into 2 groups; immigrants into subgroups; moreover still the Negroes; 3) protective tariffs give the workers what "they are subjected to the influence of prosperity," which does not exist in Europe... (403)...

412 (12. V. 1894), the sectarianism of the Social-Democratic Federation and German-American socialists in America transforms theory into "petrified orthodoxy"... ((so that workers without development would swallow theory outright)).

* See V. I. Lenin. Works, 4th ed., vol. 23, pp. 101-102. Ed.

** Ibid., p. 102. Ed.

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